The literature on chronic diseases recognizes the role of illness cognition as a mediator
between stress and illness. Few conceptualizations and instruments, however, give an …

A central task of psychiatrists working with the medically ill is to understand patients'
subjective experiences of illness to design therapeutic interventions that modulate the …

Abstract The Illness Perception Questionnaire (IPQ) is a new method for assessing cognitive
representations of illness. The IPQ is a theoretically derived measure comprising five scales …

This study was designed to be an initial investigation of implicit models of illness, that is, the
dimensional structure that organizes an individual's common-sense illness schema. Nurses …

This book is a" must read" for all students of health psychology, and will be of considerable
interest and value to others interested in the field. The discipline has not involved itself with …

Objective: The aim of this study was to develop a scale to assess the different aspects of
illness behaviour and to evaluate the measure in depressive and somatising patients …

Understanding patients' perceptions of their condition has proved a useful way of predicting
behaviour in patients suffering from physical illness or injury. Now more investigators are …

Research shows that lay theories of illness today are based on essentially the same
explanatory framework of health and illness as they were 300 years ago (Schober & Lacroix …

The present study examines the concept of illness identity, the degree to which a chronic
illness is integrated into one's identity, in adults with a chronic illness by validating a new self …